TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA REDUX

A reimagining of Brautigan's American counterculture classic

During my creative writing undergrad classes, graduate study in poetry, and early fascination with Beat Generation writers and artists, I’d never heard Richard Brautigan’s name included in the canon of 50s and 60s counterculture.

Ann Charters’ Portable Beat Reader — my heavily dog-eared companion — held the work of Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Cassady of cour…